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MTG is excited to share the latest announcement from OASIS. Great work from OASIS and MTG’s very own Mr. James E. Cabral as the chairman of the committee that created this specification.

OASIS Members and other interested parties,

OASIS is pleased to announce that Electronic Court Filing Version 5.0 from the OASIS LegalXML Electronic Court Filing TC [1] has been approved as an OASIS Committee Specification.

ECF defines a technical architecture and a set of components, operations and message structures for an electronic court filing system, and sets forth rules governing its implementation. Version 5.0 provides a number of enhancements including:

Support for scheduling of court hearings using WS-Calendar

Limited electronic service of process to process servers and registered agents

New Document Stamp and operations support retrieval of case information required for stamping

Conformance with the 4.0 version of the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM), a national standard for information sharing, new NIEM domains including Biometrics and Human Services

Conformance with the NIEM Code Lists specification version 1.0 and the representation of all ECF code lists in Genericode format

Conformance with the 2.2 version of the Universal Business Language (UBL)

Better management of extensions through NIEM augmentations

Deprecated content references (e.g. referring to related entities with common identifiers) in favor or element references (e.g. referring to related elements with structures:ref attributes) as described in Reference Rules

Clarifications and improvements throughout the specification based on feedback from implementers of the ECF 4.0 and 4.01 specifications.

Version 5.0 does not assume that prior versions will be deprecated. However, it is not backward-compatible and applications using the ECF 3.0, 3.01 and 3.1, 4.0 and 4.01 specifications will not interoperate successfully with applications using this version.

This Committee Specification is an OASIS deliverable, completed and approved by the TC and fully ready for testing and implementation.

Members of the LegalXML Courtfiling TC [1] approved this specification by Special Majority Vote. The specification had been released for public review as required by the TC Process [2]. The vote to approve as a Committee Specification passed [3], and the document is now available online in the OASIS Library as referenced above.

Our congratulations to the TC on achieving this milestone and our thanks to the reviewers who provided feedback on the specification drafts to help improve the quality of the work.

Seattle, Washington, May 17, 2019 – MTG Management Consultants, LLC, a management consulting firm focused on state and local governments, has updated its briefing on the emerging U.S. state and local court e-filing market, potentially worth $3 billion.

Initially released in 2018 and the first of its kind in the industry, the briefing has been well received in the marketplace. The latest version includes developments in the market through the first quarter of 2019.

The briefing is of interest to organizations that are concerned with or that operate in the legal market in the U.S. The E-Filing Market Briefing includes information about:

Service providers and their footprints in this market, including by state, court tier, court type, and type of filing.

Current prices and fees charged across the U.S.

Currently realized and potential volumes of e-filing and electronic services by court tier, court type, and type of filing.

The various e-filing business models in the market.

Trends and emerging developments.

The E-Filing Market Briefing is available as a yearly subscription. Please contact Mr. James E. Cabral Jr. (jcabral@mtgmc.com) or Mr. Paul M. Wieser (pwieser@mtgmc.com) to initiate a subscription or to learn more about this offering.

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About MTG Management Consultants, LLC

MTG is a limited liability consulting firm headquartered in Seattle, Washington. MTG has been providing management and technology consulting services to public sector clients since 1973 and has completed more than 800 projects in 44 states and 3 Canadian provinces, involving over 300 state and local agencies. Based on MTG’s recognized success, MTG consultants are frequently called upon as experts to advance the industry, serve in industry organizations, and share their knowledge through speaking opportunities and published articles. MTG offers advanced services that address information systems and management issues critical to the success of our clients and the constituents they serve. For more information, visit MTG’s website at www.mtgmc.com.

Seattle, Washington, January 11, 2019 – MTG Management Consultants, LLC, a management consulting firm focused on state and local government, has published its E-Filing Market Briefing. The briefing is an interactive analysis of the growing market of state and local court electronic filing. The analysis is of interest to:

Organizations watching the legal and court markets.

Solution providers active in or considering expanding into the legal space.

Courts, court support organizations, and legal technology providers.

As electronic court filing standards have evolved and gained traction in the market, so have revenues from e-filing and its sibling, electronic legal service. In 2017 alone, the leader in this space generated more than $100 million in revenues from e-filing.

In addition to a handful of veteran players, there are now dozens of new entrants seeking to grab a share of this increasing market using a variety of business, value, and growth models. Substantial opportunities exist for both new sales and competitive plays.

Be in the know and find out about:

The actual and potential volume of e-filing and electronic services by court tier, court type, and type of filing.

Prices and fees charged across the U.S.

The various e-filing business models in the market.

Trends and emerging developments in the e-filing market.

State and local source data and references are identified in the analysis and available as links. The briefing can be filtered by state, county, type of court, case type, e-filing provider, and e-service provider, and a built-in simulator lets you identify and qualify sub-markets and market segments using your own price and participation assumptions.

The E-Filing Market Briefing is available as a yearly subscription. Please contact Mr. James E. Cabral Jr. (jcabral@mtgmc.com) or Mr. Paul M. Wieser (pwieser@mtgmc.com) to initiate a subscription or to learn more about this offering.

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About MTG Management Consultants, LLC

MTG is a limited liability consulting firm headquartered in Seattle, Washington. MTG has been providing management and technology consulting services to public sector clients since 1973 and has completed more than 800 projects in 45 states and 3 Canadian provinces, involving over 300 state and local agencies. Based on MTG’s recognized success, MTG consultants are frequently called upon as experts to advance the industry, serve in industry organizations, and share their knowledge through speaking opportunities and published articles. MTG offers advanced services that address information systems and management issues critical to the success of our clients and the constituents they serve. For more information, visit MTG’s website at www.mtgmc.com.